It started with a notepad
Sanilog began with a layoff and a paper notepad. One of us is a software engineer who got let go in a tech downturn. The other, his father-in-law, has run a portable sanitation fleet for years, and still ran the whole thing from a notepad: routes, customers, who paid and who did not.
We sat at the kitchen table and looked at that notepad. The trucks were full and the work was good, but the office was a stack of carbon copies and a memory. Every tool we could find was built for fifty-truck companies and priced to match. None of it would have helped at that table.
So we built our own, slowly. We spent a year on it before letting a single outside operator near it, because we would rather get it right than get it out fast. The fleet was our test track. Every route, every invoice, every bad Monday went back into the product.
We did not want to ship something clever. We wanted to ship something that still made sense at 6 AM, in the cab, with cold hands.
It should feel right whether you have perfect eyes or tired ones, whether you grew up on apps or have never trusted one. Calm screens, readable text, big targets, and the obvious thing made the easy thing.
Every action is traceable and every change is reversible. You can always see what happened, undo it, and ask a real person when something does not make sense.
No webinar, no certification, no module four. We try to explain each step in plain language and make the workflow intuitive enough to learn on the job.
We are still small. It started with one operator and one developer, and a lot of attention to detail. But the plan was never to stay a kitchen-table project.
We are building Sanilog to stand next to the biggest names in the category and beat them on the things that actually matter: fairness, craft, and genuinely understanding the work. One careful release at a time.
The Sanilog team
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